Kurt Huber (tenor)
| Kurt Huber | |
|---|---|
| Born |
4 May 1937 Zürich |
| Occupation | Classical tenor |
Kurt Huber (born 4 May 1937) is a Swiss tenor for concert and Lieder.
Born in Zürich, Kurt Huber studied voice in Vienna with Anton Dermota.
He performed solo parts in works of Johann Sebastian Bach, especially the Evangelist in his passions and oratorios. On 19 March 1967 he performed the Evangelist in the St Matthew Passion in the Tonhalle Zürich with the Zuercher Bach Chor. He sang in the Konstantinbasilika with the Trierer Bachchor, in 1971 in the Christmas Oratorio, along with Julia Hamari, in 1973 in the St. John Passion, with Wolfgang Schöne, and in 1980 in the St. Matthew Passion, with Hildegard Laurich. He sang the St John Passion in Ulm with the choir Ulmer Kantorei on 4 May 1985.
Kurt Huber frequently performed the tenor part in the recordings of Bach cantatas with the Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn, the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra and Fritz Werner, also the Evangelist of Bach's Ascension Oratorio. A reviewer described his performance:
He sings with excellent, plangent tone and is wonderfully fluent in the very difficult chromatics of his aria ... Much though I admire Helmut Krebs I think that Huber actually makes a more ingratiating sound. He seems, dare I say it, more polished than his distinguished colleague and his voice is certainly more even.
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